Reply #230: It would have helped with Democrats if Clark said [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

that he voted for McGovern Carter and Mondale. However he openly said that he voted for Nixon and Reagan, which is the reason why this issue comes up in the first place. So you have no problem accepting Clark's word that he voted for those Republicans, but you become a skeptic when Clark says he voted for Clinton and Gore. If Clark wanted to lie about his voting record he could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble, couldn't he?

Not to mention that it makes sense that Clark voted for Clinton and Gore, for the same reason that Clinton pushed Clark's career forward. Clinton and Clark genuinely had strong areas of shared vision in the field of foreign affairs. That is why Clinton backed Clark in the first place. That is why Paul Wellstone told people "I found my General" after he met Wes Clark.

McGovern and Carter, two men who Clark actually admits he voted against, both have high regard for Clark. Carter asked him to run, and McGovern endorsed him for President. Clinton called him one of two rising stars in the Democratic Party. I think two Democratic former Presidents and one former Presidential nominee know more about Clark's real Democratic credentials than someone engaged in abstract speculation about how Clark could have lied about having voted for Democrats.